European Graphic Novels++

The crew led by Redbeard (Baba, Eric, Pegleg) are caricatures of the pirates created by Jean-Michel Charlier and Victor Hubinon for their adventure comic Le Démon des Caraïbes (The Demon of the Caribbean), published like Asterix in the comic book magazine Pilote.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Rackham%27s_Treasure

https://www.bedetheque.com/serie-76192-BD-Saint-Elme.html

Yet another brilliant Russian artist I randomly bumped in to. I guess it makes sense in a way, i.e. living under such relentless oppression all the more spurs flourishing intellectual and artistic digression from the party line. Or something like that.

The art is by Alfonso Font, whose work I generally enjoy. For example, I really dug this color palette. I don’t actually remember this story very well, but on the whole found it rather mediocre. Those ripples, though!

The site was Kinabatangan, Malaysia. The joke is based on a sequence from Tintin #22, Flight 714 to Sydney.

Finnish artist, now living in Canada. More like this at her site: https://www.evelmiina.com/

This post is kind of a ’next man up’ response to Sergio’s fun post from earlier today, in which Haddock is stumbling around in a theatre set, wearing a huge cattle head.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Seven_Crystal_Balls

“The Island without Kings” (could be stated more elegantly than that, oh well)

Yet at the same time Mœbius can create these amazingly simplistic scenes, that show so little and say more with what’s missing.

I’ve always been amazed by how much detail Mœbius can cram into an image yet still keep it readable.

These pages constitute the beginning of this superb, crime / heist / noir series, created by writer Fabien Nury (France) and artist “Brüno” (Germany). It’s called “Tyler Cross,” and is set in the fifties.

Willy Pogány was a Hungarian artist who lived from 1882 to 1955. I hardly know a thing about him, but HERE’s more of his art.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoners_of_the_Sun

Mssr Poirot, You pride yourself on solving mysteries too difficult for our poor, brainless British police force

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTDdIO74BuA

https://www.bedetheque.com/serie-87755-BD-Au-Chant-des-Grenouilles.html

Fierce is an amusing riff on the King Arthur legends that reimagines things from the ground up. The main holdovers from the old stories are Arthur, Merlin and ‘Excalibur,’ but each of their narratives have changed a lot. In this version, Arthur has defeated a demon hoard in order to secure his kingdom, and nowadays, with nothing much else to do, he descends in to sloth and gluttony.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAZJAzCshN4

Well, in any case, the main thing is that Spip made it safely aboard!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Castafiore_Emerald

Thorgal is one of my very favorite series, but wow, can the main character be a major blockhead, sometimes. These are from the recent tome 41, I think it was.

I have an infected molar from a root-canal, and I’m having much problems lately getting it professionally extracted. &@!$!*(^

I happen to like pixel art, and in the past, posted a couple collections here. Sadly, they didn’t survive the move from Lemm.ee, but I’ll see if I can find the backups.

Right-click as needed: Frank Adams, 1904 (British, 1871-1944)

https://www.bedetheque.com/serie-22255-BD-Arzak.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Red_Sea_Sharks

Previous introduction here.

I just loved the expression of this little rat, surprised whilst taking his daily bath. Checking on the author sent me down an interesting rabbit hole…

I’d say this series is primarily pitched towards kids and fanciers of the comic medium. The ’superhero’ here is like a riff on ComicBookGuy from The Simpsons. He’s completely out of shape, unremarkable in physical appearance, and wears one of the silliest outfits since the days of Ma Hunkel masquerading as The Red Tornado in the pages of the classic American comic, Scribbly. BUT he does have a ‘comics superpower,’ in that he can interact between panels, bending the very laws of the medium. (or dare I say “multiverse?")

Jérôme Moucherot ("Jerome Katzmeier” in English editions) is a middle-aged, unremarkable-looking insurance salesman. Unremarkable, except for the fact that he’s almost dwarf-life in stature, wears a leopard-skin suit, and has a nose-piercing with a fountain pen stuck through it. Nominally he’s sort of a throwback-50’s family man with a patient, frumpy wife and three homely little boys. In fact, Jerome is essentially author / artist François Boucq’s whimsical, fertile soil of an overlooked everyman, one who appears in a series of satirical, absurdist stories. Typically he rises (or sometimes retreats) to the occasion in surreal, amusing ways that classic heroes would never dream of doing.

The Black Axe is a six-issue mini-series set in the Mouse Guard universe, and this is the original art used for the cover of issue #4. I’m sharing it because I found the art heavily ligne claire-inspired, plus.. yeah! I simply love the piece.

Swarte has always been someone who tickled me, with his beautifully clean, mad, pleasing designs. For now, this will have to serve as a minor introduction to his work.

https://www.bedetheque.com/serie-21479-BD-Royaume.html

https://www.bedetheque.com/serie-34992-BD-Alix-Senator__1.html

https://www.bedetheque.com/serie-482-BD-Donjon-Parade.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdOFwuN8Nb0

Oh gosh, I love this poster.

https://www.bedetheque.com/serie-4654-BD-Berlin-Lutes.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Calculus_Affair

https://www.bedetheque.com/serie-16560-BD-Aigles-de-Rome.html

https://www.bedetheque.com/serie-500-BD-Blacksad.html

https://www.daughterofthelilies.com/comic/part-1-a-girl-with-no-face/

https://www.lambiek.net/artists/c/corben.htm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tintinandthe_Picaros

While La Langue des Vipères will officially come to French bookstores in April there is already a crowdfunding underway for the Collectors Edition. The funding goal of 12’000 € was reached after less than 4 hours which shows how eagerly the fans are anticipating her work. Me included. https://www.ulule.com/la-langue-des-viperes-edition-collector/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdULXFOWxlo

https://www.bedetheque.com/serie-60691-BD-Chateau-des-Animaux.html

https://www.amazon.com/Lone-Sloane-Salammb%C3%B4-Philippe-Druillet/dp/6554482601

Continuing on from THIS introduction, here’s another case of Steadman taking Tenniel’s art to the cleaners, so to speak. We have some rather exquisite line-work, combined with the usual touches of vulgarity and madness, altho rather subtley done this time. The white king’s face gives it away, though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explorersonthe_Moon

This is easily one of the greatest graphic novel series (3 tomes) I’ve ever read. It’s by Lewis Trondheim, creator of the brilliant Donjon mega-series, plus *Ralph Azham*, *McConey / Lapine*, and countless others.

https://www.bedetheque.com/serie-76623-BD-Bibliomule-de-Cordoue.html

Good gracious, is this a wonderful series.

As I expressed a couple weeks back, I’m rewriting the top section of the sidebar so it’s clearer what kind of content is encouraged here. I’ll give you what I have so far, so please free to comment, ask questions and/or make recommendations. I’ll take everything in to account before making the change. Following is the new text I propose:

Madeline said, ‘Pooh-pooh!’ * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madeline(book)

I’m afraid I have no more info for this one, other than it appears to be a watercolor, either digital or physical. “Luchia-a” is the name of the file, with the title above being my own invention.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TintininTibet

Cormac McCarthy’s classic *The Road* is set for an English-language release in September, and the question was asked on r/bandedessinee about what our favorite literary adaptations were. Here’s five of my favorites:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_comics#Pep_magazine

Me, I’m head-over-heels for Osamu Tezuka’s stuff, and a big fan of Hayao Miyazaki’s work, both for a long time now, altho of course Miyazaki only made a small amount of manga, I believe. ("Nausicaä” etc) And of course, mad respect to Katsuhiro Otomo for the legendary “Akira” series, plus his other works.

Deathbulge is a British webcomic that’s been running for years. The author, Dan Martin, took a break for a while in order to produce a videogame, but has been back at it recently. The comic itself is irreverent, crazy and hilarious when hitting its groove, and at other times, possibly just ridiculous and gross. The following strip is arguably the longest, craziest and goriest one yet.

Francisco’s a young, skateboarding farm dude who started drawing from around 5yo, and was already selling art by around age 12.

https://www.bedetheque.com/auteur-659-BD-Baloo.html

John Tenniel was the original artist for Lewis Carroll’s* “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” (1865), and its sequel “Through the Looking-Glass” (1871). pen-name for Victorian-era renaissance-man Charles Lutwidge Dodgson

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LandofBlack_Gold